keeping espeakup from starting at boot

[John G Heim]

I ran 'systemctl disable espeakup' on one workstation and it said that 
espeakup is not a native systemd service. It then ran insserv for me. 
Insserv modified several files including /etc/init.d/.depend.boot. But I 
didn't find any clear/easy way to disable espeakup via just setting a 
flag in a config file.

So I just punted and deleted /etc/rcS.d/S02espeakup.

I manage approximately 100 workstations and I'd prefer to set a flag in 
a config file because I can easily ship that config file to all 100 
workstations. It's just as easy to run a command on all 100 workstations 
but then there is no record of the command having been run. Well, it 
would be in a log but logs get rotated out. If it's a flag in a config 
file, it's just there. You can check on it a month from now or a year 
from now and know how the service is configured.

My guess though is that I'll be able to get what I want once everything 
is converted to systemd. It looks like you will be able to create a 
custom config file in /etc/systemd/ that enables or disables the service 
at boot. In some ways that's better and in some ways it's worse. If the 
file exists at all, you know the configuration has been customized. 
However,if a service isn't working, you might not think to look for a 
custom systemd config file.


On 02/08/2016 05:24 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Easier way than that, locate where espeakup has speakup_soft defined 
> as synthesizer and edit that and replace speakup_soft with none.
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Rob wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:04:49
>> From: Rob <captinlogic at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> To: jheim at math.wisc.edu,
>>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> Subject: Re: keeping espeakup from starting at boot
>>
>> John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On the machines used by the other people in my department, I need to 
>>> keep espeakup from starting at boot time. We run ubuntu 15.10 so I 
>>> think this is a systemd question.
>>
>> Wouldn't you just go systemctl disable espeakup?
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
>